protests in ukraine. with a blockade of government buildings and an investigation into alleged attempts to seize power. a fresh round of arrests in. jail to nearly three in the almost three year uprising. the british government is accused of attacking trade unions. protesting tactics.

it is monday morning here in moscow this is international with me from everybody here welcome to the program ukraine's opposition is calling for the expansion of antigovernment protests demonstrators to blockade the whole government from mourning and investigation has been launched into an alleged coup attempt following sunday's so-called millions monch which saw protesters barricading the prime minister's office along with many other buildings. looks at the outcome of the. and then top third and smashed the statue of one revolutionary has fallen victim to a new generation of irish marys they call him the ultimate evil but somehow take their cue from his methods as lenin did a hundred years before then protesters in kiev have captured a barricade of a handful of civic buildings. right now the scene there is a mix of a refugee camp

a gypsy village a hippie hangout. and a rock concert with a whole lot of political slogans thrown in. this is what ukrainian opposition calls a revolution others though have a different name for it we've seen things happening in ukraine we've seen a storm a government building you see but it's we see. all those being huge trash waiting to come up the east if this was happening in the happening from just a bit of course the people would be denounced as rioters you know maybe giving very stiff protests and the poses staffers are getting a financial helping hand from contributors who drop cash into special collection box that has been set up and securities provided by the so-called revolutionary guard and masts and helmets whose job is to ward off hostile forces from the gates of the citadel the movement has been blocking the heart of the city and its major thorold there for two weeks now. you have the us those who incite you to blockade

the cabinet of ministers are absolutely reckless irresponsible people the ministry of finance is in this building the ministry responsible for paying wages to all of ukraine stop and think teachers salaries doctors pay mergence the services they all depend on the continued functioning of this government. to no avail though protest leaders are certain this paralysis is the right way to go in order to reach their glorious goal. do you see a pattern here of of escalation in provocation a very large provocation a few nights ago they were using chains and tractors and of course the police as police do everywhere reacted with violence what would happen if someone drove a tractor and tried to drive it into the white house lawn you're going to tell me that there wouldn't be violence against the one hundred thousand people trying to break into the white house if you could imagine something like this happening in any other country for example in europe or in the united states i think about what

kind of reaction we would be looking at from the authorities there and whether or not police actually would be blamed for dispersing these types of protests violently or nonviolently it in the party key of. now as arena were saying tensions and central kiev are being stoked on social networks were all sorts of theories are being posted in fact so here are some of the rumors that have preceded sunday's mass rally of the most widespread messages were the or thor he is planning a violent dispersal of protests using special forces pulled into the capital from other regions the speculation fueled by reports that tanks were also on their way another widespread theory that's been circulating for the past week is that authorities were about to introduce a state of emergency now none of these rumors came true but modern history professor mark almond he says it's wrong to underestimate the danger of rumors just

like this. there is a tent through a rumor mill to create a heightened sense of tension and alarm those who remember the so-called orange revolution in two thousand and four will remember we were told then that the russian suspects not special forces lurking in the woods near here waiting to crack down they weren't nothing happened so we're seeing a kind of propaganda war psychological war taking place using these rumors of both crackdown domestically and even foreign interference whilst at the same time the very western media the western governments who report these rumors completely ignore the evidence of their own involvement in supporting the opposition providing technical training camps providing financial and other forms of assistance providing a media platform for them and so on. and ukraine's protests have changed from being pro e.u. demonstrations now mostly anti government but they remain the focus of attention

for european politicians mark arm and also told us what's the luring many of them to independence square first of all we see a parade of losers coming to care for the rest of all of the german foreign minister's party was annihilated in the recent german action it lost all the seats kaczynski the former polish prime minister is a loser. saakashvili the president reviled by the population for his tower to the portrait his presence coming because it gives them a sense of self-importance but also they're coming because the question passed on to your congressional brussels matrons will see ukraine as a key strategic factor they want to crane to be under their thumb under nato because they are deeply hostile to russia and poland based political and financial commentator patrick young he believes domestic politics are the driving force behind e.u. politicians interests in the ukrainian opposition. any piece members of the european parliament are terrified that they're about to be outflanked by anti

european forces in elections and four and five months time therefore they're doing anything to try and get a tens of popularity and of course the way they do that in the socialist european superstate of the e.u. is try and be seen around liberal demonstrators at all times because it kind of inflates their ok credentials of looking like hippy liberals the truth is they have no coherent concept of why or what they could do with ukraine and in fact the worst thing that could happen in many senses is that ukraine not signs this economic deal because if it did a live free movement of labor it would be chaos for europe as usual the european union a super state of humbug and hypocrisy. and here at r.t. international we are of course are following the developments in the ukrainian capital on air and online and also on the web site r.t. dot com you can find the most dramatic photos and videos from the ongoing protests .

thanks for joining us here on the program twenty eight antigovernment activists including some miners have been arrested since the beginning of this month in bahrain protesters say the crackdown on their movement which started almost three years ago has gotten worse in recent months and the first violent crackdown was at the beginning of two thousand and eleven when four people died during the clashes with police and just a few months later martial law was declared and then gulf troops took the country under control after that time nearly a thousand people had been arrested but the number is now well about three times that high or the ninety people have been killed since then and two thousand and twelve kicked off with a rally attended by hundreds of thousands but the people's voice was left on heard and so here we are in two thousand and thirteen and bahrain's king decides to toughen the penalties for demonstrators the result new protests and more arrests

every single week as paula sleep now reports. it's the arab spring this forgotten revolution nearly three years have gone by since the people of the rain inspired by the insane tunisia and egypt goes up against an oppressive regime and demanded reform but their uprising was brutally crushed within a matter of weeks who have published their name in the picture of all the people responsible of the human rights violation in my country. starting from the small police officer and minister of interior reaching to the king of bahrain who is legally responsible of all the human rights violations and bahrain syud yousif elmo hafter has been forced to seek refuge in europe because of death threats against him and his family and i gather bahraini activists he criticized his washington and its allies for being quick to condemn crackdowns in some countries while ignoring

others oh it's better than the human rights in bahrain and it was there and today it's better than human rights as a duration so that's where we are a victims. of their better standard because we live in oil going to last week the global manami dialogue forum which promotes security ties between nations pointedly ignored the crackdown u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel made it clear in his speech that he was more concerned about military matters that science plays directly into the brady regime's hands they want to feel there are some. really body of slaves so that's why they don't want anyone to talk about lifting it up if they give them cross either losing a lot even. so very much thanks so far according to amnesty international more than a hundred people have been killed and almost three thousand imprisoned in the

bahraini protests many more have been tortured in a crackdown there for maine's a father moved from the world take to. and we spoke to block any politician a book he was arrested this autumn says the government is simply hiding behind security forces the problem is very basic to understand we have. concentrated in behind the family and we need. to be shared. by the people through an inclusive political system that is retaining the. people rule of law was never meant. illegal. to the international community stand and your own forces biased police and courts that is why so i think is just part of the punishment part of the thread some fear today our position and the activists not to join the movement that calling for

simple rights universal rights of their people to be equal to have dignity to participate in political system and to have the blog meant that despaired with everyone. with r.t. international live from moscow still to come for you and this program iraq continues its deadly downward spiral thousands of its blasts rocked marketplaces and shops across the capital just a couple of minutes here on r.t. look at what triggered the rise of sectarian violence also. we traveled to a village in romania where furious locals have engaged in a bitter fight against the fracking site they say will destroy their livelihoods. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me.

i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason there were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back because the mere thought of it never crossed her mind. when the militants decided to try and break through to her new guinea screaming grenade. where they exploded and blew him will run his back you will. lose it all and it was all over all. we know that our comrades on our commander won't leave us no matter how tough it gets we're team. they're going to move getting was a senior in his military trio. you know he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with his body more of his comrades would die he gave his own life to save

us friends. you have to remember that israel if they were in the cabin we award for gus dramatic performance by our country israel would win every year it's a real it's a theater. not to know who is the star of the theater so i would serve the few moments ago now we have to distinguish between is soros a rhetorical position and its actual position israel wouldn't be investing billions and billions of dollars into building this wall if it wanted terror authority beyond the wall if i go back to our lines of you know i mean i think if i had a hard time doing it's not days go ahead go ahead go ahead i'm sorry if it's if it's not just the the wall and the west bank and gaza they're in seven down now.

because. they're. drilling gas. also gas and oil. is on a big journey. one hundred twenty three days. through to. relate. to people who are sitting. in a record setting trip. air. a little torch relay. m r. c international shops restaurants with a target for the latest wave of car bombings across the iraqi capital baghdad and

the blasts in predominantly shia areas took at least thirty nine lives and injured well over one hundred at this stage carrying out the attacks and a peace activist. he believes sectarian violence is a result of iraqis losing a sense of citizenship after the u.s. led invasion. there was a most like of minorities in. iraq and they were sort of held together by a certain feeling of citizenship living in one country but when the americans they imposed sectarianism they didn't appoint people to vote because of their qualities be because of their ethnic background and bets were adults that gave the chance to fundamentalist feudal figures. to come back to the scene do i'm bullish on the concept of citizenship tins then you were not

a citizen of iraq but you were remember a certain sect or member of a certain mind so this this creates big big problems in the whole of iraq. this has been one of iraq's most deadly as we have documented on r.t. dot com with a timeline showing how many civilians have died since the intervention of a decade ago.

it's good to have you with us they fought hard but for now they have lost fracking operations have restarted in northeast romania despite violent clashes between locals on the all authorities and the residents of a tiny village had managed to stop us oil giant chevron from exploring for shale gas why read about permanent damage to the environment he's cathal for points. in a remote part of romania a day of rage and fury. protesters stormed a work site operated by chevron and police responded with full force those who didn't leave willingly were dragged away so you can see. in what country we are living the police forces are behaving like a private to protect some company for so wrong. but what the people here want to know is who will protect them from big business this is one of the poorest corners of the european union but it's believed to sit on top of large reserves of valuable

natural gas it's the sort of place that's changed little over the centuries and most of the residents still live off the land land which could soon be pumped full of toxic fluid in order to get the fuel underneath it's a simple everyday action drawing water out of the well for the villagers. sharon put in jest this is really what's at the heart of the matter the environment and the water for them it's not so much about fighting chevron as it is about protecting both their lives and livelihoods but you've got the beef all my years i have been working on the land it is the only live the time now. during the day isn't your typical sort of protester a farmer all her life she and her husband were also some of the first villagers to speak out against chevron's plans to drill for natural gas in their community we've heard horror stories we're going to supply being polluted forests no longer being

green we don't want to risk everything for this company to make a profit chevron says it's committed to working with the local community to drill without damaging the environment it insists that it is abiding by all safety rules but that's not reassuring for farmers like the silly. little camel they could compute you destroy us we just want to protect what's important in our land and that's what they've done for more than a month now braving the cold villagers set up makeshift tents across from the company's drilling site chevron did temporarily suspend its operations but last week the camp was raided by the police for five for one man and i was punched in the face it was humiliating rumanian but the police treated us like criminals i felt my group was sold out. retired ourselves together to form a human chain they were kicking ass and beating us with their bottoms i was kicked here there was another religion i was in hospital now because of how hard they had him in the stomach. and on saturday more violence what began

as a peaceful demonstration was broken up by force another arrest the protests are at an end but demonstrators continue to get taken away in this car in some ways it's a case of david versus goliath a tiny romanian village fighting to get an energy giant chevron off of its land but despite the arrests despite the protests and despite the clashes the chevron trucks are already here and the work looks set to go on reporting into ingest romania for our teeth. or a little break down for you why people are so worried about fracking when they believe the chemicals used in the process can accumulate in the soil causing water and even to pollution activists claim there are over a thousand documented cases of contamination right near the drilling sites the health risks could include sensory and respiratory damage from more of the dangers of fracking just head over to want to talk. i why you there you can also check out

many other stories for example record high radiation levels at fukushima with experts saying it could kill an exposed human in just twenty minutes and. people more details on this and other problems plaguing the crippled nuclear site. plus in an interview with julian assange comparing the u.s. government's reaction to wiki leaks revelations to that have the tools running around in panic when exposed to light the story also online for your right. to see. her street. and i think that your. orders.

so it's international for you today not far off from the world update but for now the british prime minister is accused of waging a war on trade unions it's off to he launched an inquiry into one of the organization's strike tactics david cameron wants a review of an industrial standoff at an oil plot in scotland which almost led to the factories closure details here with the international sarah. it was the industrial disputes that almost cost thousands of people jobs and sports union protests the g. comparisons the aggressive tactics of the nine hundred seventy s. but the particular cool plank range mouth in scotland's pulses in eels has since reached an agreement with the unite union involved in that dispute but it doesn't and the prime minister david cameron has launched an independent inquiry into the union's behavior of the scenes that were described as intimidating bully like

tactics and mud style behavior when protesters gathered outside managers houses and the now infamous inflatable rat well the inquiry is also going to be looking at the employers behavior but the union unite have dismissed the inquiry as a tool the stunt despite this is the union bashing well earlier we spoke to one british trade union leader bob crow to find out what he thinks about it and some of these chief executives and managers. around the place which you know exam of them who go to church on a sunday and so that they believe in fairness and equality and i was going to rain . michael moore's movie for working people then we've got the right to protest protest. in the valley and the facts are mary's is that what's really happened is that the government married since up a commission really suppression. because they're not part.

of the office and that's where you really. try to cool things and. to try and when i would go you know we would love to think you know. i will persuade people through. vested interests you've got a vested interest in the employer concerned. he's making money mommy mommy expensive private david and so hence the reason why members have only got one really tall and that is to strike or to francisco that's the brutal reality of the jungle of capital. or into the artsy world out there as promised starting with thailand where the prime minister has dissolved parliament and called new elections it's following sustained protests in the capital by and calls that have left

several dead and many injured opposition members who resigned from parliament on sunday and got outside the forty five office and vowed to continue demonstrations the time all was triggered by an amnesty bill for next prime minister who was ousted in two thousand and six on charges of abuse of power is also the current leaders rather. the death of an indian man after a bus hit him severe riots in singapore's little in the district hundreds held rocks at police told causing sets and vehicles on fire at least sixteen people were hurt most of them offices twenty seven arrests were made this is the first arriving in singapore well for somebody thirty years. in a football match in brazil ended with fierce clashes between hundreds of rival fans one person reportedly killed several others seriously injured riot police fired rubber bullets to stop the fighting. has become fairly common in the country

raising security concerns ahead of next year's world. well it is a pleasure having you with us here on r.t. international this morning nearly half past eight on monday morning here in moscow up next sophie shevardnadze thanks for joining us. wealthy british style.

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